CRITICISM: Caroline Flint says that Cameron will never stand up to the big companies [GETTY]

The greedy company revealed the 9% rise in profits just two months after claiming rising costs had forced it to hike prices by a whopping 8.2%.

SSE also infuriated 130,000 of its customers after many experienced power cuts for up to 48 hours during the Christmas period due to the extreme weather.

Labour MP Caroline Flint, whose party proposed a cap on energy price rises, said: “The reason energy companies think they can get away with treating their customers so poorly is because they know David Cameron will never stand up to them.”

“They know David Cameron will never stand up to them”

Caroline Flint

Watchdog Consumer Futures also called on SSE to bring forward a 3.5% price cut scheduled for March.

SSE spokesman Alistair Phillips-Davies insisted the company had experienced a “difficult business environment”.

Meanwhile, a poll by the Money Advice Service revealed 16million Brits are “living on the edge” with no savings to cover surprise expenses